Touching Space

Author : Mark Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317009703
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Space, Placing Touch written by Mark Paterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through the body? How is this tactile landscape gendered? How is touch becoming revisited and revalidated in late capitalism through animal encounters, tourism, massage, beauty treatments, professional medicine, everyday spiritualities or the aseptic touch-free spaces of automated toilets? How is touch placed and valued within scholarly fieldwork and research itself, integral as it is to the production of embodied epistemologies? How is touch involved in such aesthetic experiences as shaping objects in sand, or encountering fleshly bodies within a painting? The goal of this edited collection, Touching Space, Placing Touch is twofold: 1. To further advance theoretical and empirical understanding of touch in social science scholarship by focussing on the differential social and cultural meanings of touching and the places of touch. 2. To develop a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary explanations of touch in terms of individual and social life, personal experiences and tasks, and their related cultural contexts. The twelve essays in this volume provide a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation. Each chapter takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The contributors are a mixture of established and emerging researchers within a growing interdisciplinary field of scholarship, yet the volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time.

Author : Gregory P. Kennedy
Publisher : Schiffer Military History Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Space written by Gregory P. Kennedy and published by Schiffer Military History Book. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of the United States' space research programs. Working at the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico, they used balloons to carry laboratory animals followed by human pilots above 99% of the atmosphere. Drawing upon flight reports and technical data, this book documents Project Manhigh and the high altitude flights that preceded it. The Manhigh flights were, in many ways, prototypes for future space missions. On each of the three flights, the Air Force placed a lone pilot in a sealed capsule nineteen miles above the ground. At such extreme altitudes, the pilots were well within the functional equivalent of outer space and needed the sealed capsule to survive. Manhigh existed prior to the creation of NASA and helped pave the way for human space exploration.

Author : Steven Schroeder
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042011632
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education written by Steven Schroeder and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redefines religious studies as a field in which a plurality of disciplines interact. A social science when understood as a body of knowledge, religion is also marked by discovery, appreciation, orientation, and application--an interplay of the arts and sciences. Teaching religious studies involves the question of the occupation of territories and disentangling occupation from violence.

Author : Mark Paterson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409402142
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Space, Placing Touch written by Mark Paterson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation, each of the chapters takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time..

Author : Betty Klausner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Time and Space written by Betty Klausner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sculptor, architect, installation artist, urban archeologist... David Ireland, born in 1930, is impossible to label. Mid-life, he decided to pursue his passion for art, and produced a body of work so idiosyncratic that it defies definition. Like his life, his working methodology is paradoxical, absurd, ironic, and uniquely enriched by humor and humanity. The result of some eighty interviews with this American artist and his friends, family, collaborators, and art world colleagues, Touching Time and Space offers a portrait of a deeply private but unfailingly generous iconoclast. His art practice, teaching and wry philosophy have profoundly affected many. Beginning with a description of the radical transformation of his home - the legendary 500 Capp Street in San Francisco - author Betty Klausner provides a narrative that illuminates Ireland's process, work, and life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Section of Sciences written by Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam. Afdeeling Natuurkunde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Section of Sciences written by Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam. Afdeeling Natuurkunde and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Burchenal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk-dances and Singing Games written by Elizabeth Burchenal and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Burchenal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk-dances and Singing Games: Dances of the people, a second volume of folk-dances and singing games, containing twenty-seven folk-dances of England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland written by Elizabeth Burchenal and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharee Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316484083
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Touch My Hair! written by Sharee Miller and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining picture book that teaches the importance of asking for permission first as a young girl attempts to escape the curious hands that want to touch her hair. It seems that wherever Aria goes, someone wants to touch her hair. In the street, strangers reach for her fluffy curls; and even under the sea, in the jungle, and in space, she's chased by a mermaid, monkeys, and poked by aliens...until, finally, Aria has had enough! Author-illustrator Sharee Miller takes the tradition of appreciation of black hair to a new, fresh, level as she doesn't seek to convince or remind young readers that their curls are beautiful--she simply acknowledges black beauty while telling a fun, imaginative story.